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Under fire over antisemitism within the Republican Party, Vice President JD Vance said on Monday that “the single most significant thing you could do to eliminate anti-semitism” is reducing immigration to the United…

On October 7th, Israeli society was significantly altered in light of the unprecedented trauma. As a direct result, the Israeli political system, which has never excelled in developed civil discourse, also pushed aside the little that was…

Antisemitic attacks from Boulder to Manchester to Sydney are no longer isolated incidents but part of a global pattern. While investigating terror networks and possible Iranian involvement is essential, the deeper Jewish response must be…

A couple of days ago, in Australia, fifteen people were murdered on the first night of Hanukkah. As the death count was still rising, friends and colleagues were reaching out with sympathy, checking in on me, horrified by this latest…

It took him 50 years – but cancer researcher Dr. Rakesh K. Jain, Harvard University, finally is getting oncologists to think differently about treating cancer.

A tired joke speaks of an economist…

Only in Israel does a manicure come with unsolicited, blunt life advice.

A few days ago, mid-polish, my manicurist looked up at me. She knows my story. She knows I am divorced from an Israeli and that navigating the “after” has not always…

Terrorism operates on three levels within society. There are those who incite it, those who commit it and those who tolerate it.

One can argue that these groups do not bear equal responsibility. Yet, judging by the outcome, it is hard to say…

Hanukkah, in its spiritual meaning, is the revelation of a timeless inner process. The external events of 170 BCE—Antiochus’s desecration of the Temple, the persecution of the people, the uprising of the Maccabees, and the miracle of the…